Excel Won't open

[Al G]

Suddenly getting "wait while configure Office XP standard"
when opening Excel. Then it wants the disk. Excel was
purchased online/download, so no disk. Updates have not
fixed problem. Some error messages are "stdret.msi"
and "Error 1706."

 

[Nick Hodge]

Al

Unless this is a trial version then Excel cannot be legitimately downloaded,
as far as I know. (At least without writing it to a CD) and the download
would also be immense.

If it is a trial version then MS support these so you can ring your
subsidiary. If it came as pre-loaded on a machine then the manufacturer of
the hardware will support it.

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)